Shipping up to Boston

So it's now official. The Flyers will take their New Year's hangovers to Fenway Park to take on the Boston Bruins in the Winter Classic. This may be a good time to reach out to my buddy who works for the Red Sox and get some tickets. Now before some of you go all crazy and start complaining that the Flyers shouldn't be in the game, here's a couple of reasons why this will work: - It may be hard to believe in a society that can't remember what it had for breakfast today, but the Flyers and Bruins had one of the most physical rivalries in the league back in the day. And now that both teams are back to playing hard-nosed hockey and are among the tops in the East, this rivalry is primed to start back up.

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It’s official: Flyers-Boston in Winter Classic

The National Hockey League's annual outdoor game will return on New Year’s Day with the Boston Bruins hosting the Philadelphia Flyers at Fenway Park -- home of the Boston Red Sox -- in the 2010 Bridgestone/NHL Winter Classic TM .  The Eastern Conference rivals will face-off at 1 p.m., ET in the classic, which received the SportsBusiness Journal “Sports Event of the Year” award for its inaugural edition in 2008. "The NHL Winter Classic is truly a great day for hockey. It has become arguably the biggest game played during the NHL's regular season and offers a tremendous opportunity to showcase our great sport of hockey to millions of worldwide viewers

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